Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 299 313
Rank change year-on-year +64 +14 -110
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 567 595 507
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.02% 0.94% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.09% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 244 293 379
10th Percentile £42,179 £42,608 £43,500
25th Percentile £56,250 £55,250 £56,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,024 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £118,375 £96,250 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,704 54,735 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.99% 86.52% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 28,159 28,437 36,165
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £99,000 £99,700
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -1.15%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 5 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 5 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +60 512 £70,000 +7.69% 950
London +109 278 £80,000 +3.23% 100
UK excluding London -6 241 £62,500 -2.51% 944
Work from Home +26 165 £72,250 +11.15% 585
South East +25 91 £62,500 -3.85% 251
North of England +24 52 £73,750 +13.46% 210
Midlands -5 43 £64,500 -4.44% 170
West Midlands +5 27 £57,468 -11.59% 84
Yorkshire +11 26 £82,500 +26.92% 80
North West +22 25 £67,500 - 109
East of England +41 22 £72,000 -0.69% 133
South West -14 16 £62,500 +16.28% 107
East Midlands -20 14 £80,000 +14.29% 75
Northern Ireland +13 12 £75,000 +26.20% 19
Wales +6 4 £53,750 -16.16% 22
Scotland +5 4 £42,000 -24.95% 43
North East 0 1 - - 21

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.00%) Confluence
2 6 (1.06%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.53%) CMS
4 2 (0.35%) CICS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.35%) MTS
5 1 (0.18%) Mule
Applications
1 14 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.71%) Trello
5 3 (0.53%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (3.35%) Payment Gateway
2 12 (2.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.88%) Shopify
4 1 (0.18%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.18%) Magento
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 80 (14.11%) SaaS
2 76 (13.40%) Azure
3 57 (10.05%) AWS
4 39 (6.88%) GCP
5 30 (5.29%) Vertex AI
6 25 (4.41%) PaaS
7 24 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.00%) Azure AI
8 17 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.29%) GitHub
9 13 (2.29%) H2O.ai
9 13 (2.29%) OpenShift
10 7 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.71%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
14 3 (0.53%) Collibra
14 3 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.53%) Google Analytics
15 2 (0.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.41%) 5G
1 8 (1.41%) Broadband
2 7 (1.23%) HTTP
2 7 (1.23%) RTP
2 7 (1.23%) WAN
3 6 (1.06%) Ethernet
3 6 (1.06%) LAN
3 6 (1.06%) PSTN
3 6 (1.06%) Wireless
4 5 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.53%) Network Security
5 3 (0.53%) VPN
6 2 (0.35%) DNS
6 2 (0.35%) Firewall
6 2 (0.35%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.35%) LTE
6 2 (0.35%) Modbus
6 2 (0.35%) SAN
6 2 (0.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.53%) Metadata
2 18 (3.17%) Data Mining
3 17 (3.00%) Relational Database
4 15 (2.65%) Power BI
5 14 (2.47%) Data Lake
6 13 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.94%) RDBMS
8 6 (1.06%) SAP BW
8 6 (1.06%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.88%) Tableau
10 4 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.53%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.35%) DB2
12 2 (0.35%) KDB
12 2 (0.35%) Kdb+
13 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.18%) Data Vault
13 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 35 (6.17%) JIRA
2 5 (0.88%) TeamCity
3 4 (0.71%) ERwin
4 3 (0.53%) PowerDesigner
5 2 (0.35%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.35%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.18%) Bazaar
6 1 (0.18%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.18%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.18%) YouTrack
General
1 232 (40.92%) Social Skills
2 202 (35.63%) Finance
3 128 (22.57%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (21.69%) Marketing
5 70 (12.35%) Law
6 64 (11.29%) Legal
7 49 (8.64%) Retail
8 47 (8.29%) Banking
9 40 (7.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 37 (6.53%) Financial Institution
11 33 (5.82%) Manufacturing
12 28 (4.94%) Electronics
13 26 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (4.59%) Public Sector
14 23 (4.06%) Telecoms
15 19 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (3.00%) Billing
17 16 (2.82%) Digital Economy
18 12 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
19 11 (1.94%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (27.51%) Product Manager
2 87 (15.34%) Lead
3 80 (14.11%) Senior
4 30 (5.29%) Senior Manager
5 24 (4.23%) Product Owner
6 21 (3.70%) Product Management Director
6 21 (3.70%) Senior Product Manager
7 20 (3.53%) Architect
7 20 (3.53%) Security Engineer
8 18 (3.17%) Product Lead
9 17 (3.00%) Developer
10 16 (2.82%) Product Delivery Manager
11 15 (2.65%) Digital Product Manager
12 14 (2.47%) Technical Support
13 13 (2.29%) Change Manager
14 12 (2.12%) Head of Product Management
15 11 (1.94%) Python Developer
15 11 (1.94%) Software Engineer
16 10 (1.76%) Backend Developer
17 9 (1.59%) Head of Digital
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.70%) REST
2 19 (3.35%) YAML
3 13 (2.29%) Keras
3 13 (2.29%) PyTorch
3 13 (2.29%) TensorFlow
4 12 (2.12%) Flask
5 9 (1.59%) FastAPI
6 7 (1.23%) .NET
6 7 (1.23%) EDI
7 6 (1.06%) Node.js
7 6 (1.06%) React
8 4 (0.71%) JSON
8 4 (0.71%) OAuth
8 4 (0.71%) SAML
8 4 (0.71%) SOAP
8 4 (0.71%) XML
9 3 (0.53%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.53%) Spring
9 3 (0.53%) Spring Boot
9 3 (0.53%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 83 (14.64%) Product Ownership
2 57 (10.05%) Onboarding
3 38 (6.70%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (5.64%) Management Information System
5 20 (3.53%) Data Centre
6 19 (3.35%) Algorithms
6 19 (3.35%) Security Posture
7 18 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 13 (2.29%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.29%) Driving Licence
9 12 (2.12%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.94%) Mobile App
11 10 (1.76%) Social Media
12 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.41%) IoT
12 8 (1.41%) Tandem
12 8 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 7 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 6 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
15 5 (0.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.41%) Windows
2 6 (1.06%) Linux
3 2 (0.35%) AIX
3 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (0.35%) zOS
4 1 (0.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (48.68%) Roadmaps
2 234 (41.27%) Agile
3 150 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
4 132 (23.28%) Product Roadmap
5 129 (22.75%) Product Strategy
6 104 (18.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 101 (17.81%) AI
8 97 (17.11%) Analytics
9 91 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (16.05%) User Experience
10 79 (13.93%) Information Security
11 76 (13.40%) Computer Science
12 75 (13.23%) B2B
13 68 (11.99%) Decision-Making
14 67 (11.82%) Strategic Thinking
15 66 (11.64%) Product Vision
15 66 (11.64%) Value Proposition
16 65 (11.46%) DevOps
16 65 (11.46%) Machine Learning
17 64 (11.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.41%) SQL
2 40 (7.05%) Python
3 20 (3.53%) Java
4 19 (3.35%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.06%) C#
6 5 (0.88%) Go
7 3 (0.53%) C++
7 3 (0.53%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.35%) Bash
8 2 (0.35%) COBOL
8 2 (0.35%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.35%) JCL
8 2 (0.35%) PHP
8 2 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.35%) Scala
9 1 (0.18%) Groovy
9 1 (0.18%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.18%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.18%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 131 (23.10%) Degree
2 59 (10.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 51 (8.99%) Master's Degree
4 31 (5.47%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.53%) SC Cleared
6 8 (1.41%) MBA
7 7 (1.23%) DV Cleared
7 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
7 7 (1.23%) PMP
8 5 (0.88%) CISSP
8 5 (0.88%) CSPO
9 4 (0.71%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.71%) CISM
9 4 (0.71%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.53%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.53%) CITP
10 3 (0.53%) HNC
10 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.35%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (6.17%) QA
2 29 (5.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.23%) NIST
4 20 (3.53%) Data Quality
4 20 (3.53%) NCSC
5 16 (2.82%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.06%) ISO 20022
7 5 (0.88%) IFRS
7 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.88%) PMO
8 4 (0.71%) GDPR
8 4 (0.71%) PSD2
8 4 (0.71%) SEPA
9 3 (0.53%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.53%) SLA
10 2 (0.35%) COREP
10 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.35%) FINREP
11 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 14 (2.47%) Docker
2 5 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
2 5 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (0.88%) vSphere
3 4 (0.71%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Firmware
5 2 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.35%) RACF
5 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.47%) Kubernetes
1 14 (2.47%) Terraform
2 4 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.53%) Ansible
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (0.35%) WSUS
5 1 (0.18%) Argo
5 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
5 1 (0.18%) Kustomize
5 1 (0.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.18%) Puppet
5 1 (0.18%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.18%) Salt
Vendors
1 80 (14.11%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.17%) Google
3 23 (4.06%) Foundry
4 21 (3.70%) Databricks
4 21 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.82%) SAP
6 15 (2.65%) Dell
6 15 (2.65%) OpenAI
7 13 (2.29%) NVIDIA
8 6 (1.06%) Zoho
9 5 (0.88%) Manugistics
9 5 (0.88%) Oracle
9 5 (0.88%) VMware
10 4 (0.71%) Adobe
10 4 (0.71%) Apple
10 4 (0.71%) Sage
11 3 (0.53%) Cisco
11 3 (0.53%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.53%) Tenable
11 3 (0.53%) YouTube